June was traditionally the month of the Miners’ Galas. Today we are remembering a very special Gala – “THE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE MINERS CENTENARY GALA – 6TH JUNE 1981 In his introduction to the Centenary Programme, which celebrated one hundred years (1881 – 1981) of trade unionism in Nottinghamshire, Bernard Taylor (Lord
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This text and the photographs are taken from the online source The historic roots and modern connotations of “Canary in the Coal Mine” (gale.com) │By Amelie Bonney, Gale Ambassador at the University of Oxford│ Most of us see bright-feathered, warbling canaries as pets, yet these tiny birds were not always
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We are continuing our Bentinck Colliery posts this week with further reference to the Bentinck Colliery cage collision in 1915. We wish to thank the Northern Mines Rescue Society for this text and their rigorous research. This is the link to the article: Bentinck Colliery Shaft Accident – Kirkby-in-Ashfield –
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Coal’s contribution to Nottinghamshire’s economy was immense Today we have a very interesting post from Mick Coakley, one of our volunteers. Mick is reminding us how much coal contributed to Nottinghamshire’s economy. We are also remembering how much we have lost since its demise and how great was the sacrifice
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We are continuing our research into Clipstone Colliery’s history to celebrate its Centenary. This text is from an article by Sid Chaplin in the March 1956 edition of ‘Coal News. Photograph by Hayward Smead: “High productivity has depleted the Top Hard reserves. Within the next decade they will be worked
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The Mining Blog is joining Clipstone Headstocks and Clipstone Village, Clipstone ex miners, surface, office and management workers, their families and friends in remembering that 2022 is Clipstone Colliery’s Centenary Year. This photograph shows the headstocks being constructed. We have no date or other details for this photograph:
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March is Women’s History Month and we are ending March by highlighting the role of women in coalmining. Professor Chris Wrigley in his essay, ‘Women in British Coalmining’, says that whilst the 1842 Parliament Act banned women and children from working underground, “There was a long history of female labour
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Blidworth Welfare Band is a brass band with a mining heritage. “We started out in the late 19th century as the Stanton Hill Temperance Band” based in Sutton in Ashfield, the band later changed their name to the Stanton Hill Silver Prize Band until the coal industry paid an interest
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We should like to thank Thoresby Colliery Band for allowing us to provide a link to their moving rendition of Gresford, The Miner’s Hymn. On September 22nd 1934 an explosion at Gresford Colliery in The North Wales Coalfield near Wrexham killed 266 miners. Gresford, the Miners’ Hymn,, with its haunting
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In this post for International Women’s Day 2022 we are celebrating the strength of the women in our coalfield communities. We celebrate their strength, whether they were fighting pit closures, acting as trade union reps for their fellow workers, campaigning against the closure of welfares, holiday camps and rehabilitation centres.
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